Starting This Week, Strava Will Give Cyclists Even More Data to Obsess Over
If you’ve ever looked at running data on Strava and wondered why runners get so many “best efforts” compared to the cycling side, wonder no longer. Last summer, Strava gave the runners a breakdown of their fastest times on everything from 400 meters to 50 km, and now the same is true for cyclists. Beginning this week, the app will expand the cycling categories of best efforts to include distance, cumulative elevation gain, biggest single climbs, power, and time for relevant intervals.
And don’t worry if you did the climb of your life a few years back, Strava retroactively pulls these efforts dating back to when you first started using the app.
The new feature can be viewed near the bottom of the athlete’s ‘You’ page on the Strava mobile app (paid subscriptions only). The feature tracks an athlete’s top three efforts in five categories and synthesizes the cycling data to help the rider contextualize progress and performance.
Best Efforts show cyclists’ longest rides, rides with the most elevation gain, biggest single climbs, and best power outputs at intervals from 5 seconds to 1 hour.
In addition to viewing the top three Best Efforts, the feature visualizes your top five efforts historically for each year of your tenure on Strava. To access this, click on “View analysis” from any category to see year-over-year progress with a graph.
Not only is this a nice stroll down memory lane, it also acts as an incentive to improve your bests. Maybe you notice that your best one-hour effort was from several years ago. Why not go out this weekend and see if you can out do yourself? Got a race coming up? Why not go for your best 100-mile time?
Best Efforts for Ride will now include the following intervals for measuring your top performances across indoor and outdoor activities:
● Distances: 10 km, 10 miles, 20 km, 40 km, 50 km, 50 miles, 80 km, 90 km., 100 km, 100 miles, 180 km
● Power/time intervals: 5 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, and 2 hours
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